Mira Community Conference - March 4 - 8, 2013
Work with ALCF staff to develop a path forward for your science by combining world-class computing expertise and resources.
As Argonne National Laboratory stands at the historic threshold of thirty years of scientific computing innovation, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility invites you to the inaugural Mira Community Conference.
mira the Latin root word for wonderful, remarkable, amazing, extraordinary. A variant, mirino, conveys the notion of path finding.
Join the Mira Community Conference - March 4-8, 2013
Learn. Be Inspired. Find a Path.
Learn.
Join ALCF and industry experts in an overview of Mira and Blue Gene/Q technology. We’ll cover basic and advanced topics, including the key differences between Mira and Intrepid, plus code optimization, scaling, tools and debuggers and parallel I/O. Hone your skills with hands-on time on Blue Gene/Q resources.
Be Inspired.
Our 16 Early Science Program (ESP) projects, the first users on our Mira prototype resources, will share their stories from the trenches, including outcomes of their earliest efforts to port their applications to the new platform. Gain insight and time-saving tips from ESP project members and ALCF staff and find inspiration in their transformative results.
Find a Path.
Work with ALCF staff to develop a path forward for your science by combining world-class computing expertise and resources. And through the Blue Gene Consortium, you’ll also have an opportunity to be a part of the growing global community of users at the forefront of this extraordinary new technology.
Agenda
Agenda
| Monday, March 4 - Day 1 | |
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| 12:00 p.m. | 1st shuttle from Guest House to Building 240 |
| 12:30 p.m. | 2nd shuttle from Guest House to Building 240 |
| 1:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. | Welcome, Safety - Richard Coffey, ALCF |
| 1:10 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. | Welcome from Argonne Leadership - Robin Graham, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director |
| 1:20 p.m. - 3:15 p.m | User Services |
| Who is the ALCF? - Richard Coffey, ALCF | |
| Introduction to ALCF User Services - Richard Coffey, ALCF | |
| A Crash Course on Vesta and the ALCF - Lalitha Mantrala, ALCF | |
| Data Transfers in the ALCF - Robert Scott, ALCF | |
| Critical Flags, Variables, and Other Important ALCF Minutiae - Jini Ramprakash, ALCF | |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Meet the Catalysts - Yuri Alexeev, James Osborn, ALCF |
| 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | BG/Q vs BG/P—Applications Perspective from Early Science Program - Tim Williams, ALCF |
| 5:00 p.m. | 1st shuttle from building 240 to Guest House |
| 5:30 p.m. | 2nd shuttle from building 240 to Guest House |
| Tuesday, March 5 - Day 2 | |
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| 8:00 a.m. | 1st shuttle from Guest House to Building 240 |
| 8:30 a.m. | 2nd shuttle from Guest House to Building 240 |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:20 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Safety Review |
| 9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. | Welcome from Argonne Leadership - Richard Coffey, ALCF |
| 9:40 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Architecture - Scott Parker, ALCF |
| 10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Application Performance Characterization and Analysis on Blue Gene/Q - Bob Walkup, IBM |
| 10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Debugging - Ray Loy, ALCF |
| 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Break & Hands-on |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Presentation Topic: How we stood up Mira - Bill Allcock, ALCF |
| 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Performance Tools - Scott Parker, ALCF |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Early Experience with I/O on Mira - Venkat Vishwanath, ALCF |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | Break |
| 2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Mysteries of the Deep: What happens inside of MPI on Blue Gene/Q and why it matters - Jeff Hammond, ALCF |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Hands On |
| 4:00 p.m. | 1st shuttle departs building 240 to Guest House |
| 4:30 p.m. | 2nd shuttle departs building 240 to Guest House |
| Wednesday, March 6 - Day 3 | ||
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| 8:00 a.m. | 1st shuttle departs from Guest House to Building 240 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | 2nd shuttle departs from Guest House to Building 240 | |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:20 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Safety Review | |
| 9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. | Overview of Early Science Program | Tim Williams (ALCF) |
| 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Session I: Threads Chair: TBA |
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| Introduction [10 min] | chair | |
| Threads in SORD earthquake fault dynamic rupture code (project) [20 min] | Geoffrey Ely (ALCF) | |
| Threads in the HACC cosmology framework (project) [20 min] | Hal Finkel (ALCF) | |
| Q&A [20 min] | ||
| 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Session II - Potpourri 1 (whole-project reports) Chair: Tim Williams |
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The Challenges of Developing a High-Resolution Climate Model for the IBM:BG/Q Platform (project) [30 min] |
Christopher L. Kerr (GFDL) |
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| Evolving the GTC plasma PIC simulation for Mira (project) [30 min] | Bei Wang (Princeton U.) | |
| 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Vendor Presentation, TAU | Sameer Shende (ParaTools) |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Vendor Presentation, HPC Toolkit | John Mellor-Crummey (Rice U.) |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Session III: Algorithms Chair: Graham Fletcher |
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| Introduction [10 min] | chair | |
| New algorithms and BG/Q scaling in GAMESS quantum chemistry code (project) [20 min] | Maricris Mayes (ALCF) | |
| New and replacement algorithms in multiscale molecular simulation (project) [20 min] | Adrian Lange (ALCF) | |
| Replacing LAPACK with Elemental and Eigen in MADNESS/MPQC chemistry codes (project) [20 min] | Alvaro Vazquez (ALCF) | |
| Multiple copy algorithm in NAMD and polarizable force field development (project) [20 min] | Yun Luo (ALCF) | |
| Q&A [15 min] | ||
| 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Allinea DDT: Breakout in room 1407-1407 | Ian Lumb (DDT) |
| 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Session IV - Potpourri 2 (whole-project reports) Chair: Tim Williams |
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| Scalable DNS code for high Reynolds number channel flow simulation on BG/Q (project) [30 min] | M.K. Lee (U. Texas) | |
| New algorithms for the improvement of the strong scaling and science delivery for the PHASTA CFD flow solver (project) [30 min] | Michel Rasquin (ALCF) | |
| Experience scaling Nek5000-based combustion code for Mira (project) [30 min] | Ammar Abdilghanie (ALCF) | |
| 5:00 p.m. | 1st shuttle departs from building 240 to Guest House | |
| 5:30 p.m. | 2nd shuttle departs from building 240 to Guest House | |
| Thursday, March 7 - Day 4 | ||
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| 8:00 a.m. | 1st shuttle departs from Guest House to Building 240 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | 2nd shuttle departs from Guest House to Building 240 | |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:20 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Safety Review | |
| 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Session V: Communication Chair: Jeff Hammond |
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| Introduction [10 min] | chair | |
| SPI, mapping, and site ordering in Lattice QCD code on Mira (project) [20 min] | Heechang Na (ALCF) | |
| Active message communication in MPI and PAMI (project) [20 min] | Jeff Hammond (ALCF) | |
| Porting Charm++/NAMD to IBM Blue Gene/Q (project) [30 min] | Wei Jiang (ALCF) | |
| 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
| Q&A [20 min] | ||
| 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Vendor Presentation, TotalView | Ed Hinkel (RogueWave) |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Vendor Presentation, Globus | Steve Tuecke (U. Chicago) |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Session VI: Potpourri 3 (whole-project reports) Chair: Tim Williams |
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| Tuning Green’s Function Monte Carlo for Mira (project) [30 min] | Steven Pieper (ANL) | |
| Preparing for Mira: experience with FLASH multiphysics simulations (project) [30 min] | Chris Daley (U. Chicago) | |
| Tuning high speed combustion and detonation code for Mira (project) [30 min] | Marta Garcia (ALCF) | |
| 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Break | |
| 2:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Session VII - Kernel Optimization Chair: Nichols Romero |
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| Introduction [10 min] | chair | |
| QPX in the QMCPACK quantum monte carlo materials code (project) [30 min] | Anouar Benali (ALCF) | |
| QPX & Parallel I/O in the HACC cosmology framework (project) [20 min] | Hal Finkel (ALCF) | |
| QPX in Lattice QCD (project) [5 min] | Heechang Na (ALCF) | |
| Kernel optimization in SORD earthquake fault dynamic rupture code (project) [20 min] | Geoffrey Ely (ALCF) | |
| To shuffle or not to shuffle: Optimizing the small matrix multiplication kernel in MADNESS (project) [15 min] | Jeff Hammond (ALCF) | |
| Q&A [20 min] | ||
| 5:00 p.m. | 1st shuttle departs from building 240 to Guest House | |
| 5:30 p.m. | 2nd shuttle departs from building 240 to Guest House | |
| Friday, March 8 - Day 5: MiraCon Conference Continues; SysAdmin Day | |
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| 8:00 a.m. | 1st shuttle departs from Guest House to Building 240 |
| 8:30 a.m. | 2nd shuttle departs from Guest House to Building 240 |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. | All: Continental Breakfast |
| 9:20 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | All: Safety Review |
| 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
MiraCon Track: Hands-On, Collaboration SysAdmin Track: Roundtable Introductions, System Configurations |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. |
MiraCon Track: Hands-On, Collaboration SysAdmin Track: Discussion Topic Selection/Voting |
| 11:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
MiraCon Track: Hands-On, Collaboration SysAdmin Track: Roundtable Discussions |
| 4:00 p.m. | All: Adjourn (Depart from building 240: NO SHUTTLE SERVICE!) |
Lodging
Registration for the workshop does not reserve your hotel room. Please contact the Argonne Guest House directly at 630.739.6000.
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All guests staying at the Argonne Guest House must obtain a gate pass. Non-U.S. citizen guests require additional documentation processing. If someone is accompanying you to this workshop, please miracon@alcf.anl.gov for your guest’s gate pass. Visitors, except Argonne Guest House or Lodging residents, may not authorize site access or issuance of a gate pass for any other person.
This workshop is being held in TCS building 240, Conference Room 1416
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Presentations
Workshop presentations are also available on our presentations page.